From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Our cron jobs look like this: 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 1 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly in /etc/cron.weekly is this file: SALESSAT which has the following lines in it: BLASTDIR=/usr/blast SETUPDIR=/usr/blast PATH=/usr/blast:. export BLASTDIR SETUPDIR PATH rm /usr/blast/wake.1 rm /usr/blast/wake.2 rm /usr/spool/uucp/LCK* blast -b autopoll -sautopoll.scr 2 wake This file is to delete files from the system and then start a BLAST communication autopoll function to retreive data files from several locations. None of the /var/log files say this is even being run. I do not see any entries in /usr/tmp/ttymgr.log with a Sunday date. And the program is apparently not being run as we don't get data from the different locations. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.setup your cron files as we have indicated 1a. you will have to use a dial out program in place of BLAST. 2.set your system clock to sunday midnight 3.see if it runs Actual Results: it didn't run. Expected Results: we should have ended up with data from 14 remote locations on the system. Additional info: we ran each line of the SALESSAT file at the command prompt and it performed flawlessly.
is /etc/cron.weekly/SALESSTAT an executable file (i.e. executable bit set)?
relayed info to our programmer and she is checking...however, it may be some time before I hear from her she is on an Installation....if I can get her attention I will query and relay back to you. JKing on hold.
Programmer went on vacation/training session and wasn't able to query her. However, the User said that the programming was still not working. So we are still at square one. JKing
apologize for not getting back to this sooner....it wasn't a crontab problem....it was an incorrect setting in the blast program...once that was corrected the problem was resolved........i didn't get word of this until today.